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- /* hash.c - The gdbm hash function. */
-
- /* This file is part of GDBM, the GNU data base manager, by Philip A. Nelson.
- Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- GDBM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- GDBM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with GDBM; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- You may contact the author by:
- e-mail: phil@wwu.edu
- us-mail: Philip A. Nelson
- Computer Science Department
- Western Washington University
- Bellingham, WA 98226
- phone: (206) 676-3035
-
- *************************************************************************/
-
- /*
- * MS-DOS port (c) 1990 by Thorsten Ohl, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- *
- * To this port, the same copying conditions apply as to the
- * original release.
- *
- * IMPORTANT:
- * This file is not identical to the original GNU release!
- * You should have received this code as patch to the official
- * GNU release.
- *
- * MORE IMPORTANT:
- * This port comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
- *
- * $Header: e:/gnu/gdbm/RCS/hash.c'v 1.4.0.1 90/08/16 09:22:38 tho Exp $
- */
-
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #ifndef MSDOS
- #include <sys/file.h>
- #endif /* not MSDOS */
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include "gdbmdefs.h"
-
-
- /* This hash function computes a 31 bit value. The value is used to index
- the hash directory using the top n bits. It is also used in a hash bucket
- to find the home position of the element by taking the value modulo the
- bucket hash table size. */
-
- LONG
- _gdbm_hash (key)
- datum key;
- {
- LONG value; /* Used to compute the hash value. */
- int index; /* Used to cycle through random values. */
-
-
- /* Set the initial value from key. */
- value = 0x238F13AF * key.dsize;
- for (index = 0; index < key.dsize; index++)
- value = (value + (key.dptr[index] << (index*5 % 24))) & 0x7FFFFFFF;
-
- value = (1103515243 * value + 12345) & 0x7FFFFFFF;
-
- /* Return the value. */
- return value;
- }
-